prehistory

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

prehistoriespre-history

1.
(countable, uncountable)The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.
Đồng nghĩa: prehistoric age
2.
(countable, uncountable)The study of those times.
3.
(countable, excessive, humorous, uncountable)(humorous, hyperbolic) Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.
4.
(countable, often, uncountable)(often as pre-history) The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.

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Đồng nghĩa

prehistoric age

Trái nghĩa

posthistory

Cùng gốc / liên quan

prehistorian prehistoric

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Nguồn gốc từ

From pre- + history, first attested in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836, after the model of prehistoric, from French préhistorique.